Joined: Sat Jan 03, 2004 1:58 pmPosts: 1661Location: just east of the midwest

i love jenny. t is very hard to watch as her mental health collasped over the years. more often hard than not hard really. still, she was my first inch, and the grace of her songs will last forever if the woman herself cannot.

_________________You can't forgive yourself.You can't forgive your dreams.But if you say the right words,your uniform gets cleaned.-American Music Club

I hear Wussy covered "Runaway" at the Treehouse, recently. I would've liked to see that. Still working on getting Jenny to play a show, this year. She has a public service announcement: "DO NOT BUY STACK. It makes Steel Reserve look like candy. If you drink a Stack, you're going to be giving a 'lead' at a meeting soon. You do not want to drink this shit!"

***edit*** Friday, June 18 we are forcing her out of retirement.

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I know. I think it's been at least 11 years since she's done an official live set (i.e., rather than just jumping on stage for a song, which was also at least 8 or 9 years ago). Says she'll do Comfest, too.

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I'm saying she didn't fucking "retire." My grandfather retired. Jenny Mae fell apart. You know, the minute Bela started this thread/blog I knew it was just a matter of time until somebody announced that Jenny Mae was playing a show.Oh, sorry, coming out of retirement. How does anyone read the blog, or the article in the paper, and possibly think it's a good idea to push her onto a stage again? So, what, she can be the local romantic figure of some tragic, cracked genius who just flew a little too close to the sun? It's a pretty fucking morbid exercise if you ask me.

That's quite a presumptuous, misguided view, Zeppo. It's offensive that you would assume my relationship with Jenny is based on someone else's blog or newspaper article or that I would push her unwillingly out on a stage for some sort of inevitable collapse. That takes some real chutzpah.

_________________People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

That's quite a presumptuous, misguided view, Zeppo. It's offensive that you would assume my relationship with Jenny is based on someone else's blog or newspaper article or that I would push her unwillingly out on a stage for some sort of inevitable collapse. That takes some real chutzpah.

You're her friend, you tell me: is she at a place in her life where she can be in a club, perform in a club, and still keep it together? You can have all the best intentions in the world for your friend but that doesn't stop them getting hurt, does it? So, tell me, what does she get out of this? How does this help her?